Zuse

Zuse is a basic programme originally created for data processing and compilation functions at ENCOM International. He was created by ENCOM software engineer, Reese Morgan, in late 1983 and was moved to the TRON System in 1984 where he eventually became a lightcycle operator and an entreprenural programme. He is reknown in the TRON System as the vivacious and flaboyant proprietor of the End of Line Club.

Early History
Zuse was compiled by Reese Morgan on 5 October 1983 and was introduced the the ENCOM Mainframe shortly there after. He was designed to work in tandem with another programme called Linux. When Zuse and Linux were introduced to the Mainframe, an information programme named MIA got them a job at the Central Processing Unit under the direction of Nexus, a strict chief processing programme. Their directive was to sort through bits.

After working at this job for many cycles, they were eventually transferred to the TRON System by Kevin Flynn. When both programmes lost their users to other companies in 1986, Kevin Flynn invited Zuse to become a lightcycle operator in the games and he and Linux parted paths. Zuse became a skilled professional on the Game Grid quickly.

Rise of C.L.U. 2
In 1989, Kevin Flynn's assisstant programme, C.L.U. corrupted and turned on both him and Tron. Tron was presumed derezzed and Kevin Flynn fled to the Outlands to organise a task force against C.L.U. Soon, C.L.U. was altering the Games to allow deresolution and was repurposing the Games' strongest warriors to become a part of his army against Flynn and the ISOs. Not wanting to get repurposed and drafted into C.L.U.'s forces, Zuse left the Games to hide in the midst of the city. Some friendly ISOs took him in.

After Flynn's attempts to fight off C.L.U. failed and he went into hiding when the Portal shut him in for good, C.L.U.'s attention reverted to destroying all ISOs within the Grid. Zuse, thankful that ISOs in the City had taken him in, joined forces of sympathetic Basics that were defending ISOs being attacked by C.L.U.'s Black Guard. The resistance was a violent conflict and Zuse became known for his heroics in defending the ISOs and their allies, however, C.L.U's forces overwhelmed the ISOs and ISO sympathisers and Zuse was forced to go into hiding when the Black Guard took full control of the city.

Zuse "reinvented" himself, taking on the guise of Castor, a zany club owner and entreprenuer. His club, the End of Line, remained open as a safe haven for ISOs however, so marked by sector badges given to fleeing ISOs, directing them to the sector in which the club was located. Zuse was able to smuggle many ISOs into the outlands as the Purge heightened in violence and ruthlessness.

The last ISO to come to Zuse for help was Quorra, who he immediately became fond of. She stayed at the End of Line for nearly a cycle until Gem, longtime girfriend of Zuse, became insanely jealous of her. Gem ratted Zuse's ISO sympathising activities to C.L.U. and the Black Guard stormed the club, Quorra barely being able to escape to the streets. C.L.U. himself came to pay Zuse a visit later, threatening to execute him and Gem unless they helped him with his plot to take over the world of the users. C.L.U. also promised that if Zuse did everything according to plan, he would leave the entire City to him.

It took hundreds of cycles for Zuse to figure out how to help C.L.U. send a page to Alan Bradley, and in that time, C.L.U. was able to play up to Zuse's arrogance and manipulate him into becoming a loyal member of his network.

C.L.U. Betrays Zuse
Although Zuse became loyal to C.L.U., he never fully trusted him. After Sam Flynn was successfully brought into the system to open the Portal and Zuse was able to get a hold of Kevin Flynn's identity disc, Zuse used the disc to download information onto his own. This programming trick would protect Zuse should C.L.U. try to derez him by rerezzing Zuse in another loaction. C.L.U ultimately betrayed Zuse and Gem after learning that Sam, Kevin, and Quorra had not been definitively desposed of. This being the case, C.L.U blew up the End of Line Club just as he and his Guard were leaving.

When Zuse's data was rerezzed it accidently went to the Portal along with Kevin Flynn's identity disc.

In the Real World
Zuse eventually rerezzed in the Real World, arriving at Flynn's Arcade behind Sam and Quorra. He hid in enough time to see Sam transfer the entire system to a USB, leaving no chance of him being able to get back inside. He attempted to follow them as they left but became ultimately lost in the midst of LA. Eventually, Zuse was able to fabricate a human identity and get a job as a math teacher. While keeping up his new identity, he secretly kept tabs on Sam Flynn's activities at ENCOM for 14 years. He evntually learned that after fixing up the servers at Flynn's, Sam had transferred the entire system back there and had made it so that his identity disc was the only thing that could access the Grid. If Zuse could get a hold of that disc, only then could he return home.